Recipes that don't work!! Grrrrrr.

Strangely we had pork belly for tea this evening too. I didn't follow a recipe but did my usual Chinese spices and somehow it didn't work as well as usual.

Hope yours is ready soon!

I always find the carrots are still rock hard when everything else is cooked so I par boil the blighters!

Ours was horrid. Threw it and the recipe in the bin.

Oh kitty how disappointing. Awful to buy, prep and anticipate only to be let down. A waste of time, effort and money. Most annoying I expect.

I know there are much worse things to cope with but it was flipping annoying.

Definitely!

kittylester

Ours was horrid. Threw it and the recipe in the bin.

Could you not have thrown it in the slow cooker and turned it into a casserole?

Might have been ready by midnight! 😂

Just a thought. Have you tested the temperature of your oven? I was having disaster after disaster so I bought an oven thermometer and discovered my once reliable oven was registering about 15%C higher than the dial says. It is also much hotter at the back than the front. Time for a new oven but I am surprised, this one is just eight years old.

It's a new cooker and I have tested the temperature on occasion- it seems to be ok.

This isn't the only time recipes haven't worked and I wonder how thoroughly they are tested.

And, to add insult to injury it contained 8 sliced garlic cloves and 4 peeled, deseeded tomatoes.

I love my slow cooker and use it for all sorts of things
I thought I would diversify into puddings to save putting the oven on A Christmas pud worked well so with confidence I thought I would try a lemon self saucing pud
I resisted looking as the recipe said.
We had friends round for supper I thought I had timed it right
BUT it flowed out the pan and tasted revolting
We all enjoyed ice cream

I usually find recipes work, but sometimes the photo doesn't match. For example the recipe says to grate the carrots/courgettes etc but they look much nicer in the photo where they have been cut into julienne strips.

I often wonder if many of the recipes are actually tried and tested to be honest; I have also had disappointing results in the past.
As for the air fryer - I've not tried making a pudding in that yet as I much prefer to batch bake sponges, pies and crumbles in the oven which makes economical sense really.
Perhaps GNetters could share successful recipes??

Oh! Where's my post?

Was there a misprint with the time, kittylester?

What did you have instead, egg and chips?

Gwyllt

I love my slow cooker and use it for all sorts of things
I thought I would diversify into puddings to save putting the oven on A Christmas pud worked well so with confidence I thought I would try a lemon self saucing pud
I resisted looking as the recipe said.
We had friends round for supper I thought I had timed it right
BUT it flowed out the pan and tasted revolting
We all enjoyed ice cream

I made a lemon self-saucing pudding on Sunday.
It was very good but I baked it for five minutes longer than the recipe. A Felicity Cloake recipe, I think, but they 're all very similar I've made it from a recipe in an old cookery book before now.

Sorry about yours, * Gwyllt*.

Oh! I see you used the slow cooker. I baked mine in the oven, 160⁰ fan oven.
Puddings that would be steamed would be fine in the slow cooker, but I'm not sure about baked ones, even though it should sit in water.

Oh they do work in oven. Own fault for trying to be economical

Callistemon21

Oh! Where's my post?

Was there a misprint with the time, kittylester?

What did you have instead, egg and chips?

Took the foil off, turned the heat up, ate what we could, threw the rest away along with the blinkin' recipe.

Fry up tonight - that never goes wrong.

Some recipes on the may have 5 stars but don't work out. When you read the reviews they may say something like I halved the sugar and doubled the spice or far too much chilli but still give a high score. I generally scan the reviews if I'm thinking of making something new

Gwyllt

Oh they do work in oven. Own fault for trying to be economical

I always steam and reheat Christmas puddings in the slow cooker.

Might try the air fryer next
Anyone baked in air fryer and with what success ❓

No, I haven't got one but I'm thinking of it.

Mine is a cheap and cheerful one from Lidl. The bigger capacity. Was reluctant at the idea but find it really useful. Don’t know if more expensive one are any better or just have more knobs

😩 I feel your pain kittylester, so frustrating and such a waste. That’s the very reason I never do recipes from the Telegraph, I did two which were just awful, so never again. I found them online when looking for a particulate type of recipe. Silly really as I have dozens of cookbooks.